Thank you Deputy Speaker, Minister, on the one hand, you are talking about cutting the wage bill, on the other hand, every single department ... and let me repeat ... every department that appears before the Standing Committee on Appropriations is talking about vacancies that they need to fill. On the one hand we need to cut yet on the other there are vacancies. There needs to be a balance.
More importantly, is it true that at any given time there is about 30% of staff that are off sick? If you pick up the phone now, 30% of staff is on sick leave.